The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source episodes

March 30, 2011Erlang, CouchBase, merging with Membase (Interview)
Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.
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Featuring:
Chris Anderson – GitHub, X
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad
The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less)
Chris sings the official CouchDB theme song to kick off Episode 0.1.8
Apache CouchDb is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB.
CouchBase was formed from merging Membase and CouchOne
Chris is one of the rare CFOs with a GitHub account
CouchBase makes the case for NoSQL
Membase Server currently uses Sqlite under the hood, but will be swapped out for Couch’s storage engine soon
Mobile Couchbase runs on iOS and brings Couch to your mobile device
CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from CouchDB.
Zynga makers of Farmville use Membase
The CouchApp toolkit is now maintained by Benoît Chesneau
Aaron Miller led the charge to get Erlang on iOS, changing dynamic linking to static linking.
SpiderMonkey was included iOS for CouchMobile and its JIT compiler made it preferable to V8 or Nitro for Couch tasks.
GeoCouch adds geospatial features to CouchDB
Chris outlines the distinctives for Couch’s incremental Map/Reduce
Jason Smith in Thailand keeps the lights on for CouchBase hosting solutions
Cloudant offers hosting for Couch in the cloud
Wynn wants to see integration for CouchBase and Appcelerator Titanium
Todd Anderson has a great tutorial on using jQuery mobile and CouchDB
Damien Katz is Chris’ programming hero
Chris says working with Jan Lehnardt is a blast
Be sure and check out CouchDB - The Definitive Guide by Chris, Jan, and Noah
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
46 min
March 30, 2011 Erlang, CouchBase, Merging with Membase
Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.
46 min
March 22, 2011Formalize and News Roundup "Design Edition" (Interview)
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog.
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Show Notes:
Nathan Smith, front end dev, speaker, and author
960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework
Formalize teaches your forms some manners
An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills
Formalize even comes with Sass support out of the box
Compass’s CSS3 module is powerful
Wynn <3 Mustache
Adam writes Sass but converts his stylesheets to SCSS for those who prefer it
Haml means never looking for a missing ever again
The Changelog on Convore
HSLPicker - Most excellent color picker for your enjoyment
Fancy buttons makes your buttons fancy with CSS
Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers
Brandon was on Episode 0.1.7 on open source publishing
Nesta CMS is our favorite Ruby CMS
reveal: jQuery modal for HTML5 and data attributes
Zurb’s CSS playground is awesome
rawler: Crawl your website and find broken links with Ruby
Inception explained in C code
JavaScript version of the Inception code, demonstrating console.group
BeerCamp 2011 site design is fun (scroll all the way down)
compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick
jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released
Nathan recently spoke at DrupalCon in Chicago on his jQuery desktop project
Adam is tickled SourceForge runs Grid Coordinates
The Open Government project demonstrates how the space is growing
Stylus from LearnBoost brings Node.js-flavored CSS preprocessing
Zeldman on designers who can’t code
Adam loves the work of Mike Kus
Wynn’s rant should be read as ten things you can do to spread the word about your open source project
Wynn’s post actually spurred Nathan to create a homepage at Formalize.me
Ryan Bates’ Railscasts are awesome
Jenkins née Hudson almost became Alfred
Nathan loves Alfred app
Adam and Wynn are on Team Launchbar
Nathan stumbled across a really neat way to target Firefox in CSS
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
50 min
March 22, 2011 Formalize and News Roundup "Design Edition"
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog.
50 min
March 16, 2011Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping (Interview)
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project.
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Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
John Long of Wiseheart design
Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications
John created RadiantCMS, later extended by Sean Cribbs
Radiant led John to a relationship with Pragmatic Programmers and formation of a Ruby Visual Identity team
Serve is basically the Rails View layer, sans the Model and Controller.
Serve’s makes it easier to use URLs that end in a / instead of file extension
Serve’s view helper are Rails compatible
Serve is Rack under the hood
Acoustic is Django-inspired and aims to be between Sinatra and Rails
“What Rails can learn from Django”
Running a successful open source project can take over your life
In the early days of Radiant, Subversion made it difficult to accept community contributions
Git and GitHub has increased community participation
Use Compass’s CSS3 module and save your sanity
Compass can change your design workflow
Fancy Buttons is a Compass plugin to easily create image-less buttons
Grab the code for Adam’s nifty Serve bootstrap, which adds easy support for Haml, Sass, Compass, and more.
Join the newly created Serve Users group
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 3 min
March 16, 2011 Serve, RadiantCMS, Design and Prototyping
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project.
1 hr 3 min
March 09, 2011MongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale (Interview)
Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale.
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Featuring:
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Eliot Horowitz CTO and Co-Founder of 10gen
Dwight Merriman CEO & Co-Founder at 10gen
NoSQL is a loose term for Key Value Stores, Graph Databases, and Document Databases
MongoDB still has a large roadmap ahead
MongoDB was first featured on The Changelog over a year ago
Single server durability tops the list of new additions in 1.8
Replica sets are an elaboration on the existing master/slave replication, adding automatic failover and automatic recovery of member nodes
Shutterfly and Foursquare boast some of the largest MongoDB implemenation
MongoDB’s sharding enables horizontal scaling across multiple nodes.
Mongo vs. Riak (and other Dynamo inspired stores)
Full vs. eventual consistency
Compound indexes
Increment operations
Be sure and check out our Riak interviews: Part 1 and Part 2
Mongo vs. CouchDB
Couch uses Map/Reduce views
Couch has great master-master replication
Couch runs on mobile
Mongo’s sharding is closer to a relational database
Mongo’s Geo features now support more precise, spherical geospatial indexing
Mongo shines at
User profiles
CMS data
Mongo enjoys wide language binding support
Eliot and 10gen think the Web Scale meme is all in good fun
BSON [bee · sahn], short for Binary JSON, is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents
Our interview with Douglas Crockford on JSON
MongoDB 2.0 will be focusing on concurrency, aggregation, online compaction, and TTL temporal collections
Eliot likes Racket when he’s not slinging C.
Linus Torvalds is one of Eliot’s heroes
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
36 min
March 09, 2011 MongoDB, NoSQL, Web Scale
Steve and Wynn sat down with Eliot Horowitz from 10gen to talk about MongoDB, the NoSQL landscape, and the fun of building at Web Scale.
36 min
March 01, 2011Ruby, Rails, the Cloud (Interview)
Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.
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Featuring:
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf
Steve will be at Codeconf
Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011
Thanks for putting up with us for 50 episodes!
Dr. Nic Williams is Developer Advocate at Engine Yard has a ton of open source projects
Engine Yard uses Amazon AWS and Terremark
Dr. Nic actively and aggressively abandons most of his 154 public repos and feels good about it due to Git and GitHub
Steve maintains a couple of projects from _why
Dr. Nic liked how Jamis Buck declared he abandoned Capistrano
Dr. Nic prefers TextMate instead of “1960s technology”
Steve likes Janus for Vim
Steve asks about Redcar
Engine Yard has partnered with Appcelerator for mobile app developers
Dr. Nic helps maintain Rails Installer, the easiest way to get up and running with Ruby on Rails. For Windows. Mac and Linux coming soon.
Luis Lavena and Charles Nutter are core to the Ruby community
“If you have to put the shortcuts on a coffee mug!” - Dr. Nic on Vim
Jeremy Ashkenas from DocumentCloud is a regular on The Changelog for projects like Docco, CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, CoffeeScript
The Jenkins rename shows the power of the community to stick together
Dr. Nic is sticking with Jenkins, but Travis is worth a look for Rubyists
Someone send Dr. Nic an Octocat badge
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
44 min
March 01, 2011 Ruby, Rails, the Cloud
Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows.
44 min